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  • Lee Atchison – Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Cloud Computing

    Congratulations to Lee Atchison who is listed #13 on the Thinkers 360 Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Cloud Computing list for January 2020. The list, created by Thinkers 360, provides a holistic measure of thought leadership and authentic influence. If you are interested in seeing the entire list, head over to Thinkers … Continue Reading…

    Lee Atchison – Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Cloud Computing

  • Managing Risk in Modern Enterprise Applications

    By: Ken Gavranovic and Lee Atchison Want to reduce MTTR, reduce incidents and have a data driven discussion on investment allocation? Try what many modern software development and operations companies have implemented, an Enterprise Risk Matrix. We have seen implementing this process on a quarterly, bi-annual or annual basic can reduce MTTR … Continue Reading…

    Managing Risk in Modern Enterprise Applications

  • How Service Tiers Can Help to Avoid Microservices Disasters

    Bringing down an entire application is easy. All it takes is the failure of a single service and the entire set of services that make up the application can come crashing down like a house of cards. Just one minor error from a non-critical service can be disastrous to the entire application. There are, of course, many ways to prevent dependent … Continue Reading…

    How Service Tiers Can Help to Avoid Microservices Disasters

  • How to Deal with Service Failures

    It’s simple, really — services call other services and they take actions based on the responses from those services. Sometimes, that action is a success, sometimes it’s a failure. But whether it is a success or a failure depends on if the interaction meets certain requirements. In particular, the response must be predictable, understandable and … Continue Reading…

    How to Deal with Service Failures

  • Cloud Strategist

    Lee is a recognized industry leader in cloud computing. He has of experience and committed his career to architecting and building high scale, cloud-based, service oriented, SaaS applications.  Lee is the Senior Director, Strategic Architecture at New Relic. Lee leads technical architecture and transformation within the Office of the CTO, … Continue Reading…

    Cloud Strategist

Cloud Strategist

Lee Atchison

Lee Atchison is a recognized industry thought leader in cloud computing. He is the Senior Director for Cloud Architecture at New Relic. He’s been with New Relic for over seven years where, among other … ...see more about About Lee Atchison

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Architecting for Scale by Lee Atchison

This is Lee's highly popular O'Reilly Media book, Architecting for Scale.As web applications grow, two things begin to happen. They scale to handle significantly more complicated and hence brittle, … ...see more about Architecting for Scale

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Lee Atchison

Lee has 32 years of industry experience and consults with leading organizations on how to modernize their application architectures and transform their organizations at scale. Lee is an industry … ...see more about Contact Lee Atchison

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  • Modern Digital Applications

    Show NotesWelcome to the inaugural episode of Modern Digital Applications! I’m very glad you are listening, and I hope you’ll find this podcast informative and helpful. My goal is to try and keep the episodes short, so that they can be consumed during a single morning average commute trip to work. Please, let me know …

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